Outside Submission to Xerox

What follows is my submission to the Office of Outside Submissions for Xerox Corporation. I made it soon after I received word that Australia would be issuing a Notice of Acceptance regarding Pardalis' parent U.S. patent for the Common Point Authoring™ system.

July 2, 2007

Office of Outside Submissions
XEROX CORPORATION
Mailstop 0147-55F E-mailed to xigwebmaster@crt.xerox.com
800 Phillips Road Faxed to 585-231-8479
Webster, NY 13580-9720

Re: Xerox U.S. Patent #5,220,657

Dear Reviewer,

This submission is made without the signing of a Xerox non-confidential disclosure agreement because all references are to publicly available information. Notwithstanding, accompanying this submission is a signed and dated Outside Submissions Agreement.

Pardalis, Inc. has received a Notice of Acceptance from the Australian Government regarding Pardalis' U.S. Patent #6,671,696 issued in 2003 and entitled “Informational object authoring and distribution system”. The Notice of Acceptance signifies that the issuance of an equivalent Australian patent will soon be forthcoming. Significantly, Xerox’s 1993 U.S. patent #5,220,657 was specifically distinguished by the Australian patent examiners from Pardalis' 696 patent.

Pardalis' mission is to promote the sharing of confidential, trustworthy and traceable data along complex and poorly coordinated supply chains with innovative Common Point Authoring™ methods for protecting the granular ownership rights of information producers. Pardalis' 696 patent is also known as the parent patent for the Common Point Authoring™ system. The critical benefit and characteristic of the Common Point Authoring™ system is granular information ownership. In addition go the 696 patent, Pardalis also holds a continuation patent in U.S. Patent #7,136,869 entitled "Common point authoring system for tracking and authenticating objects in a distribution chain", issued on November 14, 2006. Mr. James Graziano, out of the Denver office for Patton Boggs LLP, Washington, D.C., has been our patent attorney since the filing of the 696 patent.

The Xerox 657 patent is a significant, long-standing patent that covers collaborative document editing systems where multiple parties share in the creation of a single document. In contrast, Pardalis' 696 patent involves the creation by multiple parties of many documents in the form of informational objects without the necessity of any collaboration, and, additionally with the critical use of a plurality of granular immutable data elements.

Before the action taken by the Australian examiners, Pardalis' 696 patent had previously been distinguished by U.S. patent examiners from Microsoft’s U.S. Patent #5,511,197 entitled ‘Method and system for network marshalling of interface pointers for remote procedure calls’ (issued April 23, 1996), Microsoft’s U.S. Patent #5,724,588 also entitled ‘Method and system for network marshalling of interface pointers for remote procedure calls’ (issued March 3, 1998), Microsoft’s U.S. Patent #6,493,719 entitled ‘Method and system for scripting for system management information’ (issued December 10, 2002), IBM’s U.S. Patent #6,438,560 entitled ‘Reuse of immutable objects during object creation’ (issued August 20, 2002), and SAP AG's U.S. Patent #7,225,302 entitled ‘Method and software application for avoiding data loss’ (issued May 29, 2007).

What is particularly significant about being distinguished for the first time from Xerox's 657 patent is that the Xerox patent is a document collaboration patent while the Microsoft, IBM and SAP AG patents are computer run-time patents. The approach taken by the Australian examiners provides additional validation, from a fresh, new direction previously not taken by the U.S. patent examiners, to the seminal nature of the Common Point Authoring ™ system.

Pardalis’ Common Point Authoring ™ system represents much more than a simple, iterative-step improvement in the use of informational objects for either run-time efficiencies or document collaboration. It represents instead a paradigm shift in the application of object-oriented programming to provide previously unseen means for granular information ownership. More detailed information is available in Pardalis’ recent white paper, Banking on Granular Information Ownership, retrievable from Pardalis’ homepage.

This information is being submitted for review with intent of opening a dialogue with Xerox regarding opportunities for business development revolving around Xerox’s 657 patent and Pardalis’ 696 patent. Furthermore, Xerox’s 657 patent is rapidly approaching the end of its enforceable lifetime, and I would like to explore opportunities with Xerox for essentially ‘extending’ the life of Xerox’s 657 patent via licensing of Pardalis’ 696 patent. The 696 patent will be enforceable into at least the year 2021.

The market trends and the future applications of the Common Point Authoring system point to a vast and growing market. The growth in on-demand businesses, the increased privacy efforts by the government, massive growth in corporate data, and the increasing privacy concern of individuals all drive the vast potential for Pardalis’ technology. In a partnership between Xerox and Pardalis, implementing this unique granular information ownership solution would be a key market differentiator for Xerox and would bring about a strong competitive advantage for its customers.

This concludes the outside submission by Pardalis, Inc.

Best regards,

Steven Holcombe, CEO
Pardalis, Inc.

Never have received any response from Xerox (which I assume is not unusual).

By the way, the Australian patent application #2002323103 issued on August 9, 2007.  

Update on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 9:50PM by Steve Holcombe

Xerox's U.S. Patent #5,220,657 is a division of an application filed Dec. 2, 1987, now US Pat. No. 5,008,853. Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 154(c)(1), the Xerox 657 patent grant likely expired Dec. 2, 2007.